Ryan D. Edwards

This is epic, a must-read for college instructors. The starting goalkeeper is an economics BA graduate of Harvard who worked on econometric models of penalty kicks and other sports inputs and outcomes

On paper, the beef import plan made sense at least for a short term reduction in prices for consumers, and I wrote an ECON 2 exam question about it. In practice, it sounds like it rankled domestic cattlemen and may have lowered prices only a small amount www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

I can't believe he talks about his boss like that.

Walter was more than Chekov. He was a writer, a teacher, a thoughtful man, and a loyal friend. To the fans who loved him for so many years, thank you. He loved you too. Rest well, my dear friend. Keep navigating a steady course. – George

Dunno, but this feels like one of those headlines from 2006 we were all looking back at in 2009 -- "Wall Street celebrates new ways or reducing mortgage risk" or the like. "Meta unveiled a plan to raise up to $95 billion in waves of stock offering." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...

Alan Blinder points out the links between the 2026 Nobel and forward guidance in Fed policy It will be interesting to hear the findings of the Fed’s external committees on these topics www.wsj.com/opinion/kevi...

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...

Superb overview of everything by Natasha Sarin and Catherine Rampell I’d missed how Rampell had joined the Bulwark. She’s fantastic Rampell remarks that presidents actually can break economic things quickly, and IMHO that should be in a politician’s election pitch www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/o...

The US Administration's new proposed $100,000 tax on Optional Practical Training (int'l students who stay to work) was published this morning—> public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-20660.pdf I analyze the effects of this OPT tax in my new paper at @iza.org —> www.iza.org/publications...

I don’t know who finds Michael Kratsios compelling, but perhaps whoever it is does indeed have that “bright future” he claims research universities have under Trump-2 I felt like he was trying to sell me a timeshare www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/o...

Sobering budget arithmetic in one of the most expensive places to live on earth www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

I spoke with @pbsnews.org about the likely economic ripple effects of the US Administration's policy of international student exclusion.

NOW you tell us. I might have voted for that thing if I knew it could drive Zuck away. Zillionaires with little regard for people and lots of regard for power are welcome to leave this state if they want to. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. www.wsj.com/business/mar...

NEW: @copafs.bsky.social joins 19 other groups in calling for the Census Bureau's parent agency, the Commerce Department, to restore language banning political interference to its scientific integrity policy, which, as NPR first reported, Trump officials revised in August copafs.org/wp-content/u...

Greg Ip writes up a nice piece. The second X quote takes us to an upside down version of monetary policy by John Arnold reminiscent of Erdogan’s logic, which Jason Furman tries to set straight www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

El Cerrito Plaza BART parking lot redevelopment!

Helpful overview of the ups and downs in nursing www.wsj.com/health/healt...

"there needs to be a bipartisan reckoning for Mr. Trump’s budding alliance with the Kremlin against Ukraine, Europe and American interests." @wsj.com editorial board

It’s the cowardice that gets me. Every damn time.

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

Stand with Zelensky and against Putin. Stand with Pope Leo XIV and against ICE. Stand with No Kings and against Meta. Stand with the people and against the oligarchs. Stand with liberal democracy and against Trump.

Military leaders becoming amplifiers of obviously false politically-motivated messages is a norm breaking danger sign.

An ode to love, appreciation, and acceptance Who could ever be against something like this?

She’s running. “Ocasio-Cortez Transfers $1 Million to Help El-Sayed in Final Sprint in Michigan” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

Thank goodness for NPR’s reporting on this. NYT and WSJ have barely covered these developments with the statistical agencies that produce the data the Fed examines when conducting monetary policy, among many other things

When someone is allowed to detach public power from law and wield it as a personal tool, then you, your family, and your property are less secure.

Perverting the power of the state into a tool for targeted political attacks is an assault on democracy itself. Shattering our institutions harms every Conservative American and every Liberal American.

Learn more about the 2026 prize in economic sciences: Press release: bit.ly/4xr1Psn Popular information: bit.ly/4dkmaZe Advanced information: bit.ly/4xyWC1H #NobelPrize

I spoke with @nature.com on the US Administration's new $100,000 tax on international students who stay to work. I estimate that the tax will sharply reduce the use of Optional Practical Training & thus talent inflows to the US economy. My estimates in this new paper —> www.iza.org/publications...

People born before 1950 also knew about the Great Depression from parents, whose finances may never have fully recovered from that shock. Silent gen and old boomers also benefited from relative more plentiful housing and university degrees But you can’t take it with you www.wsj.com/economy/affl...

How do people decide how many children to have and when to stop? It's complicated! Lots of sociologists/demographers in this piece, including yours truly & @srhayford.bsky.social.

Join us Wed., Oct. 14 at 12pm (PT) for our next Brown Bag talk. Mallika Snyder (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research) will present, "Testing the Mobility Transition at Aggregated Administrative Scales: Internal Migration in Low- and Middle-Income Countries." Attend in-person or via Zoom.

Research universities are made stronger by foreign born faculty and students, and everyone ultimately benefits. During Nobel week it’s pretty easy to see this. The administration is opening an investigation into J-1 fraud at … UC Davis and ASU? And Darth Harvard www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

What a lovely tribute to the life of demographer Reynolds Farley, who passed away in September. I didn't know him personally, but his impact on demography is profound.

This Gen Xer got a little punchy and feisty this morning answering the Q&A on Poll Everywhere in the review yesterday Maybe a little how Harrison Ford feels when an interviewer asks him ... anything? Got that sense from his Fresh Air interview

I wonder how much of the issue is rural access and lack of price transparency. But I would agree that if there’s industry pushback to reform, there must be a lot of money involved www.npr.org/2026/10/05/n...

"I don’t care about the culture war. I care about the actual war that we’re actually in, that we’re losing." @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social has had it with SecDef

A bleak landscape for small importers. It sounds like UPS has it together at least Note also how none of the small importers interviewed say they will lower prices with tariff refunds www.wsj.com/business/log...

The only good news story is the one where the guy who looks exactly like Michael McDonald turned out to be the son of Michael McDonald

DOGE was far worse than a failure. It disrupted and destroyed good institutions that provided value www.wsj.com/politics/mic...

Do ALPRs like Flock reduce crime? Or were other dynamics in SF also contributing to a reduction in vehicle theft and break-ins? Nice article with a link to a 2026 DID paper by Mourtgos and Adams www.npr.org/sections/pla...

Under Secretary Hegseth’s new plan, servicemen with low blood alcohol levels will be required to undergo vodka replacement therapy.

A great read that was also exhausting, because the odyssey of reshoring board game production was exhausting Market signals normally help us get past what sound like enormous inefficiencies and wasted time. Then came tariffs But it makes for a great read www.wsj.com/business/ame...

There’s a lot of politics in here and also a lot of economics The beef quota should cause a pretty big fall in the price of ground beef ICE raids in KS are described as a chilling effect on documented immigrants on ranches. (Unauthorized folks don’t always live alone.) www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

Bon voyage, Darth Verlander, and thanks for the soul crushing memories in Oakland in 2012 and 2013!

If the FDA could fix this omission today, that seems like something about vaccines that everyone could agree on. Thalidomide was before the reforms that established compensation funds for victims of rare side effects www.npr.org/2026/09/26/n...

Cogent reasoning from the WSJ Editorial Board in the face of more tariff inefficiency and insanity from the administration All while people like Jamieson Greer tell us how much smarter he is than we all are www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Why does OpenAI’s rogue system sound like it was assembling a dataset to write an undergraduate honors thesis in economics? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...

A thoughtful essay about how the current generation of doctors in training might face unique risks to their skill building. We don’t yet fully know what training should look like with powerful AI tools. We’ve always had wise older teachers, but they have agency www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

A helpful overview of NIH funding delays and cuts in Trump-2. It's hard to see how political supervision would improve the system rather than break it. But there are also some thoughtful remarks in here about difficulties in the current system www.npr.org/2026/09/24/n...